Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.
“Hessinger Store was a historic general store located at Callicoon Center in Sullivan County, New York. It was built in 1840 and demolished in April 2011.”
Wikipedia article Hessinger Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 79 National Register listings published here for Sullivan County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Hessinger Store between 1998 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 26 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 23 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 8 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 28 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 18 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 1 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 7 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.2 acres | Fire Department of New York | YOUNGSVILLE |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Callicoon Center, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Callicoon Center | $50,000 | Several creeks in the area came out of their banks and flooded numerous roads in the Jeffersonville area. |
| September 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Callicoon Center | $11,500 | Just before noon, a thunderstorm along a warm front separated from the rest of a line of showers and storms and began to rotate. With a favorable environment but low instability, a weak tornado touched down near Callicoon Center. With near peak foliage in parts of the Catskills, it was easy for the weak circulation to loft leaves into the storm that were detected by radar with a debris signature. The circulation was strongest on hilltops and weak to non existent in valleys.||The survey began near Callicoon Center where there was a house with several small trees that fell on the residence. Damage to the residence was minimal. Up the hill on J Young Road there was a greater amount of damage observed, with the tornado crossing paths with old tornado damage from April 22, 2023. There were larger trees that fell in a convergent pattern, and the widest section of the tornado was in this area, estimated to be about 150 yards wide. No damage was observed on Huber Rd and down towards Hazel, so its likely the circulation became disorganized and lifted. |Crossing Route 17 and going up Beaver Hill Rd, there was more damage along the path of rotation that had a cyclonic pattern with the trees that fell on each side of the road in line with previous damage. No other damage was observed on roads that crossed the path of rotation to the town of Margaretville so the tornado was determined to have dissipated near the town of Lewbeach near the Sullivan county and Ulster County border. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callicoon Center | $10,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds brought down multiple trees and wires. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callicoon Center | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and wires on Callicoon Center Road near Sander Road. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callicoon Center | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew numerous trees down. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Callicoon Center | $5,000 | Trees and wires down. 400 customers were without electricity. The wind moved a trampoline 200 feet. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Callicoon Center | - | no account filed |
United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Jeffersonville School | 3.9 miles | 1988 |
 | German Presbyterian Church and Hortonville Cemetery | 6.0 miles | 2003 |
 | Stone Arch Bridge | 6.1 miles | 1976 |
| German Presbyterian Church and Hortonville Cemetery | 6.2 miles | 2003 |
 | Jewish Community Center of White Sulphur Springs | 6.5 miles | 1999 |
 | Roscoe Presbyterian Church and Westfield Flats Cemetery | 6.9 miles | 2001 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00000584 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Sullivan County | All 79 listed properties in this county. |
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